I told you a couple of weeks ago about the call I had from Visa Fraud because my local debit card was compromised - anyway, yesterday I was doing the monthly paperwork, bills, statements etc. and there were two entries on my M&S credit card statement (it's a Mastercard) which is odd, because I tend to use a debit rather than a credit card, and M&S is the least used anyway, neither did I recognise these entries. So I rang them in Chester, they're all very helpful and kind, they stopped the card, and said the appropriate person would ring me this morning, which she did.
The two fraudulent entries were only $33.45 and $34.16 (but converted to £ sterling on the statement) and both transactions were in Stockton, California. Michelle, who I was talking to (these Visa and Mastercard fraud investigators are becoming my new best friends) said one of them was a pizza takeaway. I wondered if Stockton CA was where the bandits were operating from, hacking into my card details, and they decided to send out for a pizza while they were at it. You couldn't make this stuff up could you.
I afterwards wondered if Mastercard could tie up the pizza address with my credit card, and catch the perpetrators. I certainly think that in the case of my Visa card being used to pay a NY City parking fine, they should be able to find the address and the bandits.
I am expecting these calla lilies in my garden to shrivel up any day soon, so took a picture of how high they've grown so far.
I have mostly been resting my foot today. I just went out this morning to the monthly meeting at Emmanuel of the Shawnee Peace Fellowship. I will write more about it another time because we are beginning to pull things together.
While I was there someone I've known, practically since I've been here and who I run into from time to time, asked if I would like to go to the local Democrats meeting on Saturday morning, in Tecumseh, I am always up for going out and meeting people but I did say to her though, that generally I support the Democrat viewpoint, except that I am very pro life and anti abortion, which I think I've mentioned is a Republican standpoint. Somewhat to my surprise she said she was too.
The rest of the day I have been on the computer sorting photographs. I am supposed to be giving my little power point presentation at next week's Kiwanis, of my trip home, and I don't really know how to do it. Last time I showed my holiday pictures Tim Sean, the former assistant minister at Emmanuel, helped me, but he is no longer there. I think I might ask Louise if we can, at least, delay it a bit while I get to grips with it.
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